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Default Reviving old NiCd batteries

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:30:24 -0700 (PDT), bob haller
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I have also heard of people doing the same thing with a car battery
but the down side of that is that the battery pack can blow up if
there are to many internal shorts.


car batteries plates are consumed and fall apart after awhile, you
might get a shorted cell once in a great while but the vast majority
of car batteries plates just disengrate

I THINK he meant using a car battery to ZAP the NiCad.